The very first moments of the film concern the crew of the Enterprise on a distant world, performing the kind of mission that we saw on the original show. It's as if the complainers in the this thread are being willfully blind.

But that's crazy, right?

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Some say that, of all the souls he has encountered in his travels, his was the most human.
All we know is, we've lost a legend.
Goodbye Leonard Nimoy.